HAVANA - Police at mid-day on March 2 in the city municipal plaza
released six of the journalists affiliated with the Cuba Free Press agency.
They had been taken into custody on March 1.

Those released were Tania Quintero, Odalys Curbelo, Juan Antonio
Sánchez, Héctor González, Orlando Bordón and Raúl Rivero, who is
director of Cuba Free Press. They had been detained at the Second
Instruction Unit of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR).

Before they were released, the police charged them with "criminal
associations in the journalistic coverage of a trial."

Continuing under detention was the deputy director of Cuba Free Press, Marvin
Hernández Monzón. She was being held in solitary confinement at the
PNR's First Unit of Cienfuegos.

Elsewhere, Cuba Free Press correspondent Hirán González of Aguada de
Pasajeros was held by police of his area from Feb. 28 to March 1 and
then released.

And at Manzanillo, to the east, Jesús Labrador, Cuba Free Press reporter. Was
detained by police during the time the trial began of the four members
of the Working Group of Internal Dissidence. The trial ended March 2
and within a week or so the sentence of the four will be announced.